Reno: To clarify the cost issue, I recently talked my boss into having a 3ph 480vac panel installed, to replace some daisey chained disconects. Cost to yank the disconnects, install and wire the panel, $1800.00 In a one shot bill. the cost for building the panel can be carried over a short period of time and just added to the general maintenance charges/funds..... It sounds like legal chicanery to me, and I don't approve, but until he and the other guy retire or get replaced the homemade panels will probably stay the way they are,
I recently talked my boss into buying a quality circuit tracer, and have waded into the process of diagraming the power distribution system of the plant. They were(are) very big into having one circuit breaker at the main feeding upwards of 10 or more dissconects..........
Talk about a mess to troubleshoot, not to mention that they keep talking about all the power issues that we have.........lol
